Rediscovered my knitting blog after I forgot about it (my bad) since I moved to Florida a year ago. Thinking back on it, packed up all my knitting for the move from Wisconsin, moved to Jacksonville, moved then to Tampa, started a new job, and then started a new relationship, it wasn't too surprising that the knitting updates got put on the back burner.
Well, back on the knitting train and working through Knit Pick's Gallatin Sweater from the kit I bought shortly after my move to Tampa and just hadn't had much time to play with it until recently. It's a 'design-as-you-go' sort of adventure with being able to customize several design pattern parts as you go, mixing and matching to suit your personality. They have stripes, weird blocky-things, owls, reindeer, beetle-chestnut symbolly-thingy (yeah, look at my picture and you'll agree--it's supposed to be a chestnut but I think it looks like a beetle), and snowflakes all to choose from and put together where applicable in the pattern. Some folks on Ravelry have lengthened their patterns much longer than the original which cuts right above the hip bone for a semi-cropped cardigan but the overall design is reminicent of the cowichan sweaters of northern native American tribal cultures. Personally I like it 'cuz it has that sort of Big Lebowski relaxed hippy look. Truly the Dude abides.
In this edit of mine, I'm adding extra stripes above and below the main large owl and chestnut pattern. It might be hard to kinda see it but the cardigan above is supposed to wrap around and the owls make up the chest and the chestnuts are the back design. I made one design flaw...the pattern size I'm making is a 45 inch chest circumference that I THOUGHT would make for a looser cardigan for layering until I noticed too late that it's to fit a chest size of 2-4 inches smaller. My stomach and hips will DEFINITELY work under these smaller conditions than anticipated but....the girls upstairs are displeased.....may consider altering the edge bands just to squeeze and extra inch on to cardigan or just settle for that v-neck dive up front.
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